It isn't. It's good to see different religions coming together in common defense without watering down or compromising their own beliefs.
My previous post was perhaps ill-advised, but it was not emotional. Sometimes the consciences of non-Catholics are threatened by policies, and sometimes the Catholics (and other mainstream religions as well) don't seem to understand that for these others, being taught evolution (just as an example) is contrary to their consciences.
I didn't intend to start a fight on this thread, only to state an unpleasant truth that we shouldn't forget.
Well, I’ll concede this much to you: the distrust of religion in the public schools among Catholics runs a little deeper than just the militantly Leftist, heretical CINOs.
Protestants and Catholics both have vast numbers of largely secularized followers who largely believe in evolution. Secularized, but conservative Protestants tend to see religion in public schools as at least being on their side. Secularized Catholics, on the other hand, are inherently distrustful of anything that seems too Christian in the public schools. Here’s why:
In the 19th and early 20th century, as education became the norm, Catholics were exposed to vehemently anti-Catholic propaganda in the public schools, such as the near-uniform adoption of Foxe’s Book of the Martyrs as part of the curriculum, in some areas of the counties. They withdrew to private Catholics schools, and the Protestant majority forbade public expenditures on Catholic schools. They funded their own schools, and the Protestant majority prohibited instruction of Latin, even in private schools. They altered their curricula, and the Protestant majority determined they should pay for the schools they do not attend.
So, to a significant extent, many Catholics welcomed early court rulings which established that public schools must be religiously neutral. It meant they could now send their kids to the schools that they were forced to pay for. It’s only more recently, as the courts shifted from demanding religious neutrality to religious exclusion that Catholics have been offended by secularization; the atheists now discriminate against all Christians in much the same way that Protestants once discriminated against Catholics... and using many of the same precedents.
Unfortunately, significant sections of the secularized Catholic population still see “fundamentalist” Christianity as as great of a threat as anti-Christians. The resentment against being discriminated against remains, after the beliefs which were discriminated against have, sadly, faded. Which is precisely why I am happy to trumpet that Catholics and Protestants (and, yes, Jews) are allies against those who hate religion.